Near-Nude Streaker at UCLA-Arizona Game Inspires Confused Players to Brawl

We give this guy big points for figuring out a way -- Hollywood comedy-flick-style -- of getting on a football field unnoticed in order to perform his big prank:

Taking off most of his clothes and streaking just before halftime at UCLA's game against the University of Arizona in Tucson, a U of A fan ID'd as Jace Lankow dressed as a referee before stripping down to red-and-white underwear and streaking across the field.

All good. Unfortunately ...

... for some reason the ensuing confusion caused by an otherwise properly dressed ref who happened to go nearly nude inspired at least a half-dozen players to scuffle and "brawl."

With four seconds remaining in the first half, a man dressed in referee's clothing ran onto the field toward the line of scrimmage blowing a whistle and waving his hands before taking off running and taking off clothes. As play halted to corral and rid of the man, three UCLA players and three Arizona players began to argue at close range without an official noticing.

Dennis Romero has worked on staff at several magazines and newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian, and, as a
young stringer, the New York Times.